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Amaranthus, MONOECIA PENTANDRIA. 609 
colour, white the other half, and all the lower leaves are of 
the former. Whereas A. tricolor, growing in the same soil, 
&e. rises to only three or four in height, with generally a sim- 
ple, erect stem, and numerous, variegated, narrower leayes 
with very long glomerules of flowers in their axills. 
I have not hitherto been able to find any Asiatic syno- 
nyms for either of these; Sir William Jones supposes the 
Sanscrit name, Vasiuea, may belong to an a Amaraathusy but 
to what species is uncertain. 
13. A, fascieatus, R. 
Erect, ramous above the middJe. Leaves rhomb-oyate. 
Panicles terminal, composed of a few simple, cylindric 
branches, Bractes minute, shorter than the obtuse, three- 
leaved calyx, which is shorter than the rugose capsules, 
Bun or twntun? nuteeya of the Bengalees. 
Chilaka tota Kura of the Telingas. 
A common weed,and green in every part, with the excep- 
tion of a crescent-shaped cloud or fillet of paler green cross- 
ing the centre of the leaves, __ 
SECT. II. Pentandrous. 
14, A. hybridus. Willd. iv, 389. : f 
Erect, from two to three feet high. Jannes shensltdpaiies: 
Jar, Racemes naked, panicled, erect. Leaflets of the calyces 
three, rather obtuse, covering the very rugose capsules, 
Introduced into Bengal trom Pern, where it is indige- 
nous. i 
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old, A, foal psec aia oe 
Pentandrous, annual. Stem and branches erect. ieee 
- broad-lanceolar. Panicles erect. Leaves of the calyx dag~ . 
gered, Capsules wrinkled, seed pellucid, with callous white | 
First discovered by Dr, Buchanan, on the hills between the 
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